Vicky qualified as a registered children’s nurse from King’s College University, London. Post- qualifying, she specialised in neonatal intensive care nursing. Having developed a passion for neonatal care and advancing nursing practice, she undertook Masters-level training to qualify as an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. She continued to develop her senior nursing role as an ANNP, taking a lead role on ward rounds and high-risk resuscitations. She also worked as part of the local retrieval service. She is an independent prescriber and has undertaken non-medical authorisation of blood products training.
With a continued drive to improve the quality and safety of neonatal care, she undertook a PhD focusing upon the implementation of complex interventions to reduce neonatal central-line associated infections.
She now works primarily as a Principal Teaching Fellow on the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Neonatal) pathway, as a module lead for Advanced Neonatal Studies and Prescribing in Clinical Practice, as well as a group facilitator for the Research Methods for Evidence Based Practice module. She also teaches on a variety of aspects of advanced nursing practice.
In addition, she has recently been seconded to provide external expert consultancy work, including assisting in strategic-level neonatal service improvement and expert witness work.
She is a member of the NIHR neonatal clinical studies group, and actively engages in peer review of research papers for publication. She is also involved in reviewing local research ethics applications.
She is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (06I1202E) and with the Higher Education Academy with recognition of Fellow status (PR124939).
- You can listen to Vicky discussing the past, present, and future of advanced neonatal clinical practice alongside two fellow ANNPs, on the Two Paeds in a Pod podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/user-663288011/episode-76-advanced-neonatal-nurse-practitioners
- You can watch the 99NICU conference presentation on neonatal CLABSIs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTSBexNNimk&t=2s
